βαπτίζω
to baptize
‘to baptize’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Imperfect
- Continuous or repeated action in past time (“was writing”).
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
- Perfect
- A completed past action with continuing present results.
Voice
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Middle
- The subject acts on or for itself, or with special interest in the action.
Mood
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms 28 distinct
- Verb, Aorist, Passive, Infinitive 10 times (13%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 7 times (9%)
- Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 5 times (6%)
- Verb, Imperfect, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 5 times (6%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular 4 times (5%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 4 times (5%)
- Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural 4 times (5%)
- Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 1st person, Plural 3 times (4%)
+20 more forms (35 occurrences)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 77 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G907 appears — 64 distinct verses across 8 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew 6 verses
- Matthew 3:6 ἐβαπτίζοντο impf pass ind 3pl They were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.
- Matthew 3:11 βαπτίζω βαπτίσει pres act ind 1sg fut act ind 3sg I indeed baptize you in water for repentance, but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.
- Matthew 3:13 βαπτισθῆναι aor pass inf Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him.
- Matthew 3:14 βαπτισθῆναι aor pass inf But John would have hindered him, saying, "I need to be baptized by you, and you come to me?"
- Matthew 3:16 βαπτισθεὶς aor pass ptcp nom sg masc Jesus, when he was baptized, went up directly from the water: and behold, the heavens were opened to him. He saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming on him.
- Matthew 28:19 βαπτίζοντες pres act ptcp nom pl masc Therefore go, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
Mark 10 verses
- Mark 1:4 βαπτίζων pres act ptcp nom sg masc John came baptizing in the wilderness and preaching the baptism of repentance for forgiveness of sins.
- Mark 1:5 ἐβαπτίζοντο impf pass ind 3pl All the country of Judea and all those of Jerusalem went out to him. They were baptized by him in the Jordan river, confessing their sins.
- Mark 1:8 ἐβάπτισα βαπτίσει aor act ind 1sg fut act ind 3sg I baptized you in water, but he will baptize you in the Holy Spirit."
- Mark 1:9 ἐβαπτίσθη aor pass ind 3sg It happened in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized by John in the Jordan.
- Mark 6:14 βαπτίζων pres act ptcp nom sg masc King Herod heard this, for his name had become known, and he said, "John the Baptizer has risen from the dead, and therefore these powers are at work in him."
- Mark 6:24 βαπτίζοντος pres act ptcp gen sg masc She went out, and said to her mother, "What shall I ask?" She said, "The head of John the Baptizer."
- Mark 7:4 βαπτίσωνται aor mid subj 3pl They don't eat when they come from the marketplace, unless they bathe themselves, and there are many other things, which they have received to hold to: washings of cups, pitchers, bronze vessels, and couches.)
- Mark 10:38 βαπτίζομαι βαπτισθῆναι pres pass ind 1sg aor pass inf But Jesus said to them, "You don't know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?"
- Mark 10:39 βαπτίζομαι βαπτισθήσεσθε pres pass ind 1sg fut pass ind 2pl They said to him, "We are able." Jesus said to them, "You shall indeed drink the cup that I drink, and you shall be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with;
- Mark 16:16 βαπτισθεὶς aor pass ptcp nom sg masc He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.
Luke 8 verses
- Luke 3:7 βαπτισθῆναι aor pass inf He said therefore to the multitudes who went out to be baptized by him, "You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
- Luke 3:12 βαπτισθῆναι aor pass inf Tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they said to him, "Teacher, what must we do?"
- Luke 3:16 βαπτίζω βαπτίσει pres act ind 1sg fut act ind 3sg John answered them all, "I indeed baptize you with water, but he comes who is mightier than I, the latchet of whose sandals I am not worthy to loosen. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and fire,
- Luke 3:21 βαπτισθῆναι βαπτισθέντος aor pass inf aor pass ptcp gen sg masc Now it happened, when all the people were baptized, Jesus also had been baptized, and was praying. The sky was opened,
- Luke 7:29 βαπτισθέντες aor pass ptcp nom pl masc When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they declared God to be just, having been baptized with John's baptism.
- Luke 7:30 βαπτισθέντες aor pass ptcp nom pl masc But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God, not being baptized by him themselves.
- Luke 11:38 ἐβαπτίσθη aor pass ind 3sg When the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that he had not first washed himself before dinner.
- Luke 12:50 βαπτισθῆναι aor pass inf But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!
John 11 verses
- John 1:25 βαπτίζεις pres act ind 2sg They asked him, "Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?"
- John 1:26 βαπτίζω pres act ind 1sg John answered them, "I baptize in water, but among you stands one whom you don't know.
- John 1:28 βαπτίζων pres act ptcp nom sg masc These things were done in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
- John 1:31 βαπτίζων pres act ptcp nom sg masc I didn't know him, but for this reason I came baptizing in water: that he would be revealed to Israel."
- John 1:33 βαπτίζειν βαπτίζων pres act inf pres act ptcp nom sg masc I didn't recognize him, but he who sent me to baptize in water, he said to me, 'On whomever you will see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.'
- John 3:22 ἐβάπτιζεν impf act ind 3sg After these things, Jesus came with his disciples into the land of Judea. He stayed there with them, and baptized.
- John 3:23 βαπτίζων ἐβαπτίζοντο pres act ptcp nom sg masc impf pass ind 3pl John also was baptizing in Enon near Salim, because there was much water there. They came, and were baptized.
- John 3:26 βαπτίζει pres act ind 3sg They came to John, and said to him, "Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified, behold, the same baptizes, and everyone is coming to him."
- John 4:1 βαπτίζει pres act ind 3sg Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John
- John 4:2 ἐβάπτιζεν impf act ind 3sg (although Jesus himself didn't baptize, but his disciples),
- John 10:40 βαπτίζων pres act ptcp nom sg masc He went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was baptizing at first, and there he stayed.
Acts 19 verses
- Acts 1:5 ἐβάπτισεν βαπτισθήσεσθε aor act ind 3sg fut pass ind 2pl For John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days from now."
- Acts 2:38 βαπτισθήτω aor pass impv 3sg Peter said to them, "Repent, and be baptized, everyone of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
- Acts 2:41 ἐβαπτίσθησαν aor pass ind 3pl Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.
- Acts 8:12 ἐβαπτίζοντο impf pass ind 3pl But when they believed Philip preaching good news concerning the Kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.
- Acts 8:13 βαπτισθεὶς aor pass ptcp nom sg masc Simon himself also believed. Being baptized, he continued with Philip. Seeing signs and great miracles occuring, he was amazed.
- Acts 8:16 βεβαπτισμένοι perf pass ptcp nom pl masc for as yet he had fallen on none of them. They had only been baptized in the name of Christ Jesus.
- Acts 8:36 βαπτισθῆναι aor pass inf As they went on the way, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, "Behold, here is water. What is keeping me from being baptized?"
- Acts 8:38 ἐβάπτισεν aor act ind 3sg He commanded the chariot to stand still, and they both went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.
- Acts 9:18 ἐβαπτίσθη aor pass ind 3sg Immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and he received his sight. He arose and was baptized.
- Acts 10:47 βαπτισθῆναι aor pass inf "Can any man forbid the water, that these who have received the Holy Spirit as well as we should not be baptized?"
- Acts 10:48 βαπτισθῆναι aor pass inf He commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay some days.
- Acts 11:16 ἐβάπτισεν βαπτισθήσεσθε aor act ind 3sg fut pass ind 2pl I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, 'John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit.'
- Acts 16:15 ἐβαπτίσθη aor pass ind 3sg When she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, "If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and stay." So she persuaded us.
- Acts 16:33 ἐβαπτίσθη aor pass ind 3sg He took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes, and was immediately baptized, he and all his household.
- Acts 18:8 ἐβαπτίζοντο impf pass ind 3pl Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his house. Many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were baptized.
- Acts 19:3 ἐβαπτίσθητε aor pass ind 2pl He said, "Into what then were you baptized?" They said, "Into John's baptism."
- Acts 19:4 ἐβάπτισεν aor act ind 3sg Paul said, "John indeed baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe in the one who would come after him, that is, in Jesus."
- Acts 19:5 ἐβαπτίσθησαν aor pass ind 3pl When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
- Acts 22:16 βάπτισαι aor mid impv 2sg Now why do you wait? Arise, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.'
Romans 1 verse
1 Corinthians 8 verses
- 1 Corinthians 1:13 ἐβαπτίσθητε aor pass ind 2pl Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized into the name of Paul?
- 1 Corinthians 1:14 ἐβάπτισα aor act ind 1sg I thank God that I baptized none of you, except Crispus and Gaius,
- 1 Corinthians 1:15 ἐβαπτίσθητε aor pass ind 2pl so that no one should say that I had baptized you into my own name.
- 1 Corinthians 1:16 ἐβάπτισα ἐβάπτισα aor act ind 1sg aor act ind 1sg (I also baptized the household of Stephanas; besides them, I don't know whether I baptized any other.)
- 1 Corinthians 1:17 βαπτίζειν pres act inf For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Gospel--not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ wouldn't be made void.
- 1 Corinthians 10:2 ἐβαπτίσθησαν aor pass ind 3pl and were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
- 1 Corinthians 12:13 ἐβαπτίσθημεν aor pass ind 1pl For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.
- 1 Corinthians 15:29 βαπτιζόμενοι βαπτίζονται pres pass ptcp nom pl masc pres pass ind 3pl Or else what will they do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead aren't raised at all, why then are they baptized for the dead?
Galatians 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
βαπτιζω — transliterated baptízō — is a Greek word carrying the sense “to baptize.” Debuting at Matthew 3:6, it then recurs through the corpus. With 64 verses in 8 books, it is a moderately common word in the Greek New Testament. Its uses concentrate in Acts (30% of all occurrences). Thayer's distinguishes 3 senses for it. See the sense tree, 64-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G907 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 64
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 64 distinct verses.
- 8 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 8 of 27 New Testament books.
- #220
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Greek words (rank 220 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 64 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 64 distinct verses.
- Gospels 35 verses · 55%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 27 verses · 42%
- Johannine 11 verses · 17%
- Pauline corpus 10 verses · 16%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Baptized 12×, Be baptized 12×, Baptize 6×
- American Standard Version: Baptized 12×, Be baptized 9×, Were baptized 7×
- Berean Standard Bible: Be baptized 8×, Baptize 7×, Baptized 6×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Baptized 8×, Baptizing 8×, Be baptized 8×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G907 across 85 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 22 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G907 across 85 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 27 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G907 across 75 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 20 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G907 across 85 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 22 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 3 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to dip repeatedly, to immerse, to submerge (of vessels sunk)
- to cleanse by dipping or submerging, to wash, to make clean with water, to wash one's self, bathe
- to overwhelm Not to be confused with 911…
Word origin
Derived from βαπτω (báptō) (G911) — to dip.
From a derivative of G911 ; to make whelmed (that is fully wet ); used only (in the New Testament) of ceremonial ablution especially (technically) of the ordinance of Christian baptism : - baptist baptize wash.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 28 distinct written forms G907 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G907, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word βαπτιζω appears 2 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 2 verses in 2 books.
- 2
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 2
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- 2 Kings 5:14 βαπτίζω
- Isaiah 21:4 βαπτίζω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G907) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- 2 Kings 5:14 βαπτίζω Then went he down, and dipped [himself] seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh came again like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
- Isaiah 21:4 βαπτίζω My heart flutters, horror has frightened me; the twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling to me.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G907) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
